CFC–MULTISCALAR CHALLENGES : LAND- LINKS: MULTI-CITIES, AGRO LANDSCAPES, HYPER-FOODS, INNO-FIELDS. 5 FACTORS FOR A BALANCED GEO-URBANITY

The new contemporary multi-city, the fractal, irregular,open and networked poly-polis (Gausa 2018), needs the landscape, as a eco-systemic and proactive infrastruc- ture, conceived not only as a network of ‘green open spaces’. The in-between transversal landscape of the new city needs agriculture to ensure its positive and relational conservation. Agriculture, especially if developed in low or medi- um intensity contexts, requires programmatic innovative mixture and diversi- ty—associated with its uses and crops, but also with an agro-tourism based on zero kilometre hospitality, gastronomy, energy production, digital manufacturing, technical research—to ensure its own resilient livelihood capacity. Creative Food Cycles (CFC) covers all these scales and levels of action—with a socio-cultural ac- tivism approach—promoting a strategic and innovative integration, from the ter- ritorial and urban perspective to the creative-social dimension and to the scale of product design. The food factor, from a mere productive indicator, becomes an agent inducing new sustainable and innovative processes.